Machinery Orders in June, 2014 and Forecast for Jul.- Sep. 2014

Results

The total value of machinery orders received by 280 manufacturers operating in Japan
increased by 17.1% in June from the previous month on a seasonally adjusted basis.
In April-June period it rose by 14.4% compared with the previous quarter.
Private-sector machinery orders, excluding volatile ones for ships and
those from electric power companies, increased a seasonally adjusted by 8.8% in June,
and showed decrease by 10.4% in April-June period.

In the July-September period the total amount of machinery orders was forecasted
to decrease by 15.3% and private-sector orders, excluding volatile ones, were forecasted
to rise by 2.9% from the previous quarter respectively. This forecast was basically
made by summing up the figures from 280 machinery manufacturers.